Word: odd
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...Prism" could be forgiven for thinking that Aboriginal art now occupies the center. Here, prominent non-Aboriginal artists such as Piccinini, Rosemary Laing and Fiona Hall, for once, become the minority. But because of the quietly considered way the pictures are hung, the Aboriginal upstaging appears neither jarring nor odd but perfectly natural. In this way it reflects both the heightened interest in Aboriginal art internationally, and its growing impact on the mainstream at home. As Tillers himself notes in the exhibition catalog, "It is impossible today for an Australian artist not to take Aboriginal art into account, into serious...
...joke,” Benkreira says.But in his junior year, former U.S. Olympian Linda Miller took over the reigns as Wilson’s head coach, and as the crew program got serious, Benkreira got serious about crew.“It’s kind of odd how I came to row, but I’m glad I did it,” he says.When Benkreira arrived at Harvard, he once again found himself in a unique situation.The vast majority of college rowers are white, hailing from prestigious East Coast prep schools, Europe or Australia, and occasionally...
...Every day, I need to earn my spot on this team, and if I once were to feel comfortable with my status here, I’d have lost the drive that got me this far,” he says. “It’s an odd dynamic to have such defined competition between your own teammates. I feel people think that competition is a negative without realizing that we’re all working together, pushing one another to become better rowers...
...Marie’s early inability to fully integrate into court life and reconcile her headstrong willfulness with a world so entirely governed by impenetrable rules of social decorum. Alienated and alone, plagued by rumors and insinuations (most damagingly, the perpetual gossip surrounding her husband’s odd indifference to actually consummating their royal alliance), she suffers the sort of humiliations and personal tragedies that can only exist in the contrived world of an assembled and isolated ruling elite. Marie’s universe is precisely the sort of place where well dressed courtiers drift languidly through Versailles?...
...owed that much, but it was the threat to take her to court that prompted her call to the debt collectors. She told them that she couldn't pay right then, and they were, shall we say, unsympathetic. So they sent more letters, and made phone calls at odd hours...